This is an amazing story. Throughout. The back end as well as the front end.
Terry McMahon did an amazing job of gathering cast, crew, equipment and all he needed to make a film via Facebook.
There is no lighting, except for two 5 Euro lamps, the film is shot with two video cameras.
The story is tough, as life in today’s Ireland is, apparently. Charlie Casanova is an everyman, but a coward at that. He’s one of a kind and yet, there are probably thousands like him. It is a guy nobody would want to meet at a cul-de-sac. The story is as dark as human nature’s darkness can get. There is no hope, no love, no ray of light. The world is cruel, hopeless and the spectators are helpless, hypnotised by the vision pictured, where an obvious mad man rules their attention and the world on the screen. Charlie Casanova is the puppet master, a clown and a cruel character, whose intensity paralyses everyone around him including the audience.
The experience keeps everyone in their seats until the last long scene which proves Terry McMahon’s point.
A must see.
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